Hope is necessary in every condition.
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
What is easy is seldom excellent.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.